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Callan
1967 - 1972 7.0 (9 votes) 4 Seasons
Genres
Action & Adventure Drama
Networks
ITV1

Callan

David Callan, only good at one thing, well maybe two, killing people and collecting toy soldiers.

Overview

Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. The series starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, a reluctant professional killer for a shadowy branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section'.

Top Cast

Edward Woodward
Edward Woodward

David Callan

Russell Hunter
Russell Hunter

Lonely

Anthony Valentine
Anthony Valentine

Mears

William Squire
William Squire

Hunter

Patrick Mower
Patrick Mower

Cross

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1967)

No overview available.

7 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Magnum for Schneider (pilot)
1967-02-06

Hunter, head of the Section, requires the services of his best operative, David Callan. Callan had been 'retired' from the service due to his growing conscience, disrespect for orders, and concerns about the people he was ordered to eliminate. Callan now working as a bookkeeper, a job he despises, is offered to be reinstated into the Section if he kills Schneider, an international arms dealer.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 2: The Good Ones Are All Dead
1967-07-08

Under threat of being placed in a red file, Callan is coerced into helping the Section hand over an ex-SS officer, Strauss, to the Israelis.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 3: Goodbye, Nobby Clarke
1967-07-15

Callan must stop an old friend, Clarke, from going back to Africa, where he was training mercenaries, else Hunter will have Clarke killed.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 4: Death of Robert E. Lee
1967-07-22

Two CIA agents request the help of Hunter's Section in killing a Chinese agent, who has been trading in nuclear secrets. But his real mission in England is to kill Hunter.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 5: Goodness Burns Too Bright
1967-07-29

Callan is lured into going to Berlin, where Hunter wants to use him as a sacrificial lamb to facilitate the planting of a British mole.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 6: But's He's a Lord, Mr. Callan
1967-08-05

Hunter wants Callan to stop a blackmailing Lord from selling the negatives used in the blackmail to all and sundry.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 7: You Should Have Got Here Sooner
1967-08-12

When somebody beats Lonely up, and Callan finds out who it was he turns the table on Hunter.

Runtime: 50 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1969)

No overview available.

15 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Red Knight, White Knight
1969-01-08

The Section's new Hunter has Callan pulled from the field.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 2: The Most Promising Girl of Her Year
1969-01-15

Callan must prove that a young biochemist is not giving information to the East.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 3: You're Under Starter's Orders
1969-01-22

Callan apparently turns renegade. A ruse to trap the head of a ‘pipeline' for smuggling foreign agents and defectors out of the country.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 4: Little Bits and Pieces of Love
1969-01-29

Callan must use the wife of a rocket scientist as bait to lure the same scientist to Britain.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 5: Let's Kill Everybody
1969-02-05

A freelance German mercenary organisation who specialise in eliminating foreign security sections have their sights set on the Section.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 6: Heir Apparent
1969-02-12

After Hunter's death Meres and Calln must fetch the new Hunter from East Germany.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 7: Land of Light and Peace
1969-02-19

Callan must retrieve a microfilm from a spying medium.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 8: Blackmailers Should Be Discouraged
1969-02-26

Calln must find everything out about the past of an influential politician.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 9: Death of a Friend
1969-03-05

The French O.A.S. carry an internal war into England. Callan and Meres must sort out the mess.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 10: Jack-on-Top
1969-03-12

Callan and Meres must catch the controller of a ring of spies before he can leave the country with the information the ring has gathered.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 11: Once a Big Man, Always a Big Man
1969-03-19

Callan and Meres must secure the safe of a ship that was sunk during World War Two. It contains a list of Third Reich collaborateurs and puppets. A survivor of the ship tries to stop them.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 12: Running Dog
1969-03-26

Callan must stop fashist agitators from killing the Chinese Ambassador.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 13: The Worst Soldier I Ever Saw
1969-04-02

Security wants a retired brigadier of the British army to be stopped from accepting a job offer from a sultan, deadly force is requested.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 14: Nice People Die at Home
1969-04-09

Callan brings confusion into a Russian spy network.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 15: Death of a Hunter
1969-04-16

Callan in brainwashed into believing that Hunter is the leak in the Section and that he has also killed Lonely and framed Callan for murder. In his drugged state Callan kills Hunter and is shot down by Meres.

Runtime: 50 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1972)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: That'll Be the Day
1972-03-01

Callan is dead. Or so the KGB would have you think.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 2: Call Me Sir!
1972-03-08

Lonely is used as bait to retrieve Callan from the KGB.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 3: First Refusal
1972-03-15

Callan has become the new Hunter. And his first job is to retrieve a list of British undercover agents.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 4: Rules of the Game
1972-03-22

Callan orders Cross to terrorise an innocent Russian family for political reasons.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 5: If He Can, So Could I
1972-03-29

Callan looses his position as Hunter when he goes after the assassin who killed Cross.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 6: None of Your Business
1972-04-05

The old Hunter returns and Callan tries to get away.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 7: Charlie Says It's Goodbye
1972-04-12

Callan tries to quit the Section when a girl he is seeing takes a dislike to his job.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 8: I Never Wanted the Job
1972-04-19

Lonely becomes the unlucky witness to a mob hit.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 9: The Carrier
1972-04-26

Callan and Lonley break into a courier's house to find out how he's operating.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 10: The Contract
1972-05-03

Callan substitutes himself for an assassin in order to prevent an assassination.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 11: Call Me Enemy (Richmond File 1)
1972-05-10

Callan debriefs a top enemy defector.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 12: Do You Recognise the Woman? (Richmond File 2)
1972-05-17

Richmond, a top enemy defector, reveals his true purpose.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 13: A Man Like Me (Richmond File 3)
1972-04-24

Callan tracks down Richmond who is trying to leave Britain.

Runtime: 50 min

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